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Caravaggio
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1571-1610
Italian painter. After an early career as a painter of portraits, still-life and genre scenes he became the most persuasive religious painter of his time. His bold, naturalistic style, which emphasized the common humanity of the apostles and martyrs, flattered the aspirations of the Counter-Reformation Church, while his vivid chiaroscuro enhanced both three-dimensionality and drama, as well as evoking the mystery of the faith. He followed a militantly realist agenda, rejecting both Mannerism and the classicizing naturalism of his main rival, Annibale Carracci. In the first 30 years of the 17th century his naturalistic ambitions and revolutionary artistic procedures attracted a large following from all over Europe.
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Painting ID:: 5735
Basket of Fruit df
c. 1597
Oil on canvas, 31 x 47 cm
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
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Painting ID:: 5736
St Catherine of Alexandria fdf
c. 1598
Oil on canvas, 173 x 133 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 5737
Martha and Mary Magdalene gg
c. 1598
Oil on canvas, 97,8 x 132,7 cm
Institute of Arts, Detroit
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Painting ID:: 5738
Judith Beheading Holofernes (detail) gf
c. 1598
Oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5739
Judith Beheading Holofernes (detail) vc
c. 1598
Oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
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Caravaggio
Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1571-1610
Italian painter. After an early career as a painter of portraits, still-life and genre scenes he became the most persuasive religious painter of his time. His bold, naturalistic style, which emphasized the common humanity of the apostles and martyrs, flattered the aspirations of the Counter-Reformation Church, while his vivid chiaroscuro enhanced both three-dimensionality and drama, as well as evoking the mystery of the faith. He followed a militantly realist agenda, rejecting both Mannerism and the classicizing naturalism of his main rival, Annibale Carracci. In the first 30 years of the 17th century his naturalistic ambitions and revolutionary artistic procedures attracted a large following from all over Europe.
. Related Artists to Caravaggio: | Arshile Gorky | Bamboccio | Nicolas de Largilliee | John Ferguson Weir | Thomas Birch |
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